1970s in sociology

1971

• Erving Goffman's Relations in Public is published.
• György Lukács' History and Class Consciousness (last edition) is published.
• Frank Parkin's Class Inequality and Political Order: Social Stratification in Capitalist and Communist Societies is published.
• Talcott Parsons' The System of Modern Societies is published.
• Frances Fox Piven's and Richard Cloward's Regulating the poor; the functions of public welfare is published.
• Henry S. Shryock's and Jacob S. Siegel's The Methods and Materials of Demography is published.
• William H. Sewell serves as president of the ASA.

Deaths

June 4 - György Lukács

1972

• Stanley Cohen's Folk Devils and Moral Panics is published.
• Andre Gunder Frank's Lumpenbourgeoisie: Lumpendevelopment is published.
• Karl Popper's Objective Knowledge is published.
• Michael Young's Is equality a dream is published.
• William J. Goode serves as president of the ASA.

1973

• Jean Baudrillard's The Mirror of Production is published.
• Ernest Becker's The Denial of Death is published.
• Daniel Bell's The Coming of Post-Industrial Society is published.
• Raymond Boudon's Mathematical structures of social mobility is published.
• James Coleman's The Mathematics of Collective Activity is published.
• Shmuel Noah Eisenstadt's Traditional patrimonialism and modern neopatrimonialism is published.
• Shmuel Noah Eisenstadt's Tradition, change, and modernity is published.
• Alvin Ward Gouldner's For Sociology is published.
• David V. Glass' Numbering the People is published.
• Steven Goldberg's The Inevitability of Patriarchy is published.
• Friedrich Hayek's Law, Legislation and Liberty is published.
• Jacques Lacan's The Four Fundamental Concepts of Psychoanalysis is published.
• John Rex's Discovering sociology : studies in sociological theory and method is published.
• Peter Willmott's and Michael Young's Symmetrical family; a study of work and leisure in the London region is published.

1974

• Raymond Boudon's Education, opportunity, and social inequality : changing prospects in Western society is published.
• Harry Braverman's Labour and Monopoly Capital; the Degradation of Work in the Twentieth Century is published.
• Oliver Cox's Jewish Self-Interest in Black Pluralism is published.
• Erving Goffman's Frame Analysis is published.
• Nicos Poulantzas' Classes in contemporary Capitalism is published.
• Wilhelm Reich's The Sexual Revolution is published.
• Immanuel Wallerstein's The Modern World-System (Volume 1): Capitalist Agriculture and the Origins of the European World-Economy in the Sixteenth Century is published.
• Peter M. Blau serves as president of the ASA.
• Last meeting of the London Positivist Society

Deaths

• March 6 - Ernest Becker

1975

• Randall Collins' Conflict Sociology is published.
• Michel Foucault's Discipline and Punish is published.
• Paul Feyerabend's Against Method is published.
• Ian Hacking's The Emergence of Probability is published.
• Ian Hacking's Why Does Language Matter to Philosophy? is published.
• Charles Tilly's (ed.) The Formation of National States in Western Europe is published.
• Nicos Poulantzas' Crisis of Dictatorships is published.
• John Westergaard's and Henrietta Resler's Class in a capitalist society : a study of contemporary Britain is published.

1976

• Jean Baudrillard's Symbolic exchange and Death is published.
• Thomas R. Dye's Who's running America? : Institutional leadership in the United States is published.
• Michel Foucault's The Will to Knowledge is published.
• Anthony Giddens' The New Rules of the Sociological Method is published.
• Morris Janowitz's Social Control and the Welfare State is published.
• Edmund Leach's Culture and Communication is published.
• Stuart Hall's and Tony Jefferson's (eds.) Resistance through Rituals is published.
• Roy Wallis' The Road to Total Freedom is published.

1977

• Colin Crouch's Class conflict and the industrial relations crisis : compromise and corporatism in the policies of the British state is published.
• Frances Fox Piven's and Richard Cloward's Poor People's Movements: Why They Succeed, How They Fail is published.
• Michael Th. Greven's Parties and political rule: the interdependence of internal-party order and democracy in the FRG is published.
• Christopher Lasch's Haven in a Heartless World is published.
• Karl Polanyi's The Livelihood of Man is published.
• John Milton Yinger serves as president of the ASA.

Deaths

• March 26 - Will Herberg
• June 18 - Ali Shariati

1978

• Arnaldo Bagnasco's, Marcello Messori's and Carlo Trigilia's Problematiche dello sviluppo italiano is published.
• Paul Feyerabend's Science in a Free Society is published.
• Ernest Gellner's State and Society in Soviet Thought is published.
• Stuart Hall's, Charles Critcher's, Tony Jefferson's, Brian Robert's and John Clarke's Policing the Crisis is published.
• Morris Janowitz's The Last Half-Century is published.
• Nicos Mouzelis's Modern Greece Facets of Underdevelopment is published.
• Nicos Poulantzas' State, Power and Socialism is published.
• Amos H. Hawley serves as president of the ASA.

1979

• Pierre Bourdieu's Distinction: A Social Critique of the Judgment of Taste is published.
• Michael Burawoy's Manufacturing Consent is published.
• Ralf Dahrendorf's Life Chances is published.
• Reestablishment of Sociology in China.
• Christopher Lasch's The Culture of Narcissism is published.
• Jean-François Lyotard's The Postmodern Condition is published.
• Michel Maffesoli's The Present Conquest is published.
• Michel Maffesoli's Total Violence: Essay on Political Anthropology is published.
• Theda Skocpol's States and Social Revolutions is published.
• Viviana Zelizer's Morals and Markets: The Development of Life Insurance Policies in the United States is published.
• Hubert M. Blalock, Jr. serves as president of the ASA.